Presented without comment, two comic strips from 1997. Name a nightmare. How about an ex-wife who churns out books that, no matter the subject, are heavily weighted with autobiography? Welcome to my world. Actually, it’s not that bad. In fact, my friend and ex-wife Rheta Grimsley Johnson has produced a new book entitled “The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge,” in which she dishes on dogs, husbands and other trappings of domestication. She also has a new Web site, rhetasbooks.com. Of her previous books, my favorite is “Poor Man’s Provence, Finding Myself in Cajun Country.” It makes Rheta mad when I single out PMP for praise; I don’t know why. Of course, if I were better at knowing what makes Rheta mad, she’d be writing different stories. But take a look at “The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge.” Just don’t believe everything you read.
38 responses to “Digging Up Bones”
If I finish typing before someone else, I’ll be first today. 🙂
I’m staying indoors a lot lately because while the temp is in the high 70s and low 80s, which is bad enough, the humidity is like a wool blanket and the minute I step outside I start to sweat and have trouble breathing. Not good when I have problems on a good day.
Debbe, may Jason’s memory be a blessing to your family, and may you all be comforted.
“Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.” – Benjamin Franklin
Good advice.
I am guilty of invading small countries based on bad advice, but mom still loves me.
My wife is the one who picked out and bought our boat, a 22.5 foot pontoon rigged for fishing.
Not that JJ would have ever mined some of his experiences with Rhetta as fodder for A&J. 😉
BTW, what is “PMW”?
Blinky: PMV is a typo, and so is PMW. I think Jimmy means PMP – Poor Man’s Provence.
And Jimmy, Rheta is in good company. My father won the Ernie Pyle award in 1955 . . .
Jimmy: Good for you! I wish more of our politicians could get along as well as you and Rheta do.
Sure, go correct the typo and make me look foolish! I certainly don’t need any help doing that, thank you sir! 😉
Thanks to your recommendation, Poor Man’s Provence is now on my reading list.
Help- how do I cook a steak again? It’s just a little one, maybe 3/4 pound and almost inch thick….using a skillet. Jackie brought lots of goodies from her garden and I thought a steak salad would be nice. (I really wanted a pot roast but there wasn’t one in the store) Any hints folks? Thanks.
Ernie Pyle award? COOL for Rheta! Best of luck with the new book. 🙂
Llee: Here’s a set of instructions that may help:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Pan-Fry-the-Perfect-Steak/?ALLSTEPS
I’d just add that if you have a meat thermometer to be sure the center of the steak reaches 165 degrees F.
Thanks!
165 F, but then stop immediately. Chacun. Peace,
Llee, why do you need to cook the steak “again”? Cooking it once should be sufficient. 😀
And remember the interior temp of the meat will continue to rise for a bit after it is removed from the heat and is “resting”.
Yeah, two things for which men are useful…killing spiders and cooking mass quantities of raw meat over a heat source.
I am glad Janice lost that jealous streak, or at least that it’s lessened.
Ghost, I’ve been told that we are good for at least ONE more thing…of course my wife is a good egg.
Jimmy I have yet to make it to Hiroshima, but it is nice to know that it came back after the Atomic Bomb. BTW, isn’t it about time to check in on Gene? Maybe another Day?
Carl Barks on doing comics work while in a difficult marriage, as told to Donald Ault and printed in Mr. Ault’s book Carl Barks:Conversations.
Barks: “It seemed like the more difficulties I had, why, the bigger the inspiration that would come when there was just a moment of calmness. When the dishes would stop flying, the bottles breaking, why, I could sit down and the ideas would just flow in on me. I could forget all the pains and the scratches, and so on, and just go right to work.”
For those not on Facebook my friend Lezlie has an online blog called Lezlie’sWorld@blogspot.com or Mark will put the right one. I mention this because there is a naked statue that looks like her in the blog today.
Jackie: Rejected, with or w/o the ‘. Peace,
Jealousy is a dangerous thing!!!!!
emb, Jackie, here it is: http://lezliesworld.blogspot.com/
Steve: We’d certainly like to think so, wouldn’t we? 🙂
“Why can’t we get all the people in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.” -Charles Schulz. Hello JJ.
Dickens is asleep in pile of pillows. Lezlie is writing her blog and zip am still posting photos but not for long. We are meeting Jim Michalak the boat designer for breakfast since we got wires crossed for lunch. Forced Lezlie and me to eat his toasted ravioli for appetizer so it wasn’t wasted. She’d never eaten them.